Choke (2008)

The Shining (1980)

Summary: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.

Release Date: June 13, 1980

Genres: Drama, Horror

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Writers: Stephen King

, Stanley Kubrick

, Diane Johnson

Runtime: 2 h 26 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Warner Bros., Hawk Films, Hawk Films, Peregrine, Peregrine, Producers Circle

Distributor: Warner Bros., Home Box Office (HBO), American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Warner Home Video, Fathom Events, HBO Max, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Studio Distribution Services (SDS)

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: The Shining

Movie budget: $ 19,000,000

Domestic: $ 45,634,352

International: $ 2,325,098

Drag Me to Hell (2009)

Summary: A loan officer who evicts an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point.

Release Date: May 29, 2009

Genre: Horror

Director: Sam Raimi

Writers: Sam Raimi

, Ivan Raimi

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Universal Pictures, Ghost House Pictures, Buckaroo Entertainment, Curse Productions, Mandate Pictures, Wonderworks Films

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Scream Factory, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United States, India

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 42,100,625

International: $ 48,742,925

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Summary: The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.

Release Date: December 15, 2000

Genre: Drama

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Writers: Hubert Selby Jr.

, Darren Aronofsky

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: NC-17

Production: Artisan Entertainment, Thousand Words, Sibling Productions, Bandeira Entertainment, Requiem for a Dream, Truth and Soul Pictures

Distributor: Artisan Home Entertainment, Lions Gate Films, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,500,000

Domestic: $ 3,635,482

International: $ 3,754,626

Shutter Island (2010)

Summary: Two US marshals are sent to a mental institution on an inhospitable island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient.

Release Date: February 19, 2010

Genres: Thriller, Mystery

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writers: Laeta Kalogridis

, Dennis Lehane

Runtime: 2 h 18 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, Phoenix Pictures, Sikelia Productions, Appian Way, Thomas FX Group

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 80,000,000

Domestic: $ 128,012,934

International: $ 166,933,479

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

Summary: On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

Release Date: September 18, 2019

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Céline Sciamma

Writer: Céline Sciamma

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Lilies Films, Arte France Cinéma, Hold Up Films, Canal+, Ciné+, ARTE, Pyramide Distribution, MK2 Films, Cinécap 2

Distributor: Neon, Hulu

Country: France

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 4,860,000

Domestic: $ 3,759,854

International: $ 6,259,667

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Summary: A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.

Release Date: June 06, 2014

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Doug Liman

Writers: Christopher McQuarrie

, Jez Butterworth

, John-Henry Butterworth

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Province of British Columbia Production Services Tax Credit, Dune Entertainment, Prime Focus

Distributor: HBO Max, KVH Media Group, Studio Distribution Services (SDS), Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, Canada, India

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 178,000,000

Domestic: $ 100,206,256

International: $ 276,837,989

The Machinist (2004)

Summary: An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.

Release Date: December 03, 2004

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: Brad Anderson

Writer: Scott Kosar

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: R

Production: Filmax Group, Castelao Producciones, Canal+ España, Castelao Pictures

Distributor: Filmax International, Paramount Home Entertainment, Tubi TV

Country: Spain

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,082,715

International: $ 7,120,520

Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

Summary: A pharmacy-robbing dope fiend and his crew pop pills and evade the law.

Release Date: October 20, 1989

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Gus Van Sant

Writers: James Fogle

, Gus Van Sant

, Daniel Yost

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: R

Production: Avenue Pictures

Distributor: Avenue Pictures Productions, Artisan Entertainment, Image Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,500,000

Domestic: $ 4,729,352

International: $ 274

Production: 2.4.7. Films, France 3 Cinéma, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Celluloid Dreams, Sony Pictures Classics, Soficinéma, Sofica Europacorp, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), La Région Île-de-France, Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma, Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep), Agence Nationale de Gestion des Oeuvres Audiovisuelles (ANGOA)

Persepolis (2007)

Summary: A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.

Release Date: February 22, 2008

Genres: Drama, Biography, Animation

Directors: Vincent Paronnaud

, Marjane Satrapi

Writers: Marjane Satrapi

, Vincent Paronnaud

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: PG-13

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, United States

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 7,300,000

Domestic: $ 4,445,756

International: $ 18,338,222

Django Unchained (2012)

Summary: With the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.

Release Date: December 25, 2012

Genres: Drama, Western

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Writer: Quentin Tarantino

Runtime: 2 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Weinstein Company, Columbia Pictures

Distributor: The Weinstein Company, Anchor Bay Entertainment, KVH Media Group, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 100,000,000

Domestic: $ 162,805,434

International: $ 263,270,859

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Summary: Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.

Release Date: March 06, 1998

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Sport

Directors: Joel Coen

, Ethan Coen

Writers: Ethan Coen

, Joel Coen

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: R

Production: Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Working Title Films

Distributor: Image Entertainment, NBC Universal Television Distribution, Peacock, PolyGram Video, USA Network, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 19,301,403

International: $ 28,765,540

The Game (1997)

Summary: After a wealthy San Francisco banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his life is turned upside down as he begins to question if it might really be a concealed conspiracy to destroy him.

Release Date: September 12, 1997

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: David Fincher

Writers: John Brancato

, Michael Ferris

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: R

Production: Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Propaganda Films, A&B Producoes, Lda.

Distributor: Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Image Entertainment, PolyGram Video, The Criterion Collection, TBS Superstation, TNT, Universal Studios Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 50,000,000

Domestic: $ 48,323,648

International: $ 61,100,000

Big Trouble (2002)

Summary: The lives of several Miami denizens, from ad agents to gunrunners to street thugs to law enforcement to school-children, intersect with humorous and dangerous results.

Release Date: April 05, 2002

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Writers: Dave Barry

, Robert Ramsey

, Matthew Stone

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Touchstone Pictures, The Jacobson Company, Sonnenfeld Josephson Worldwide Entertainment

Distributor: Mill Creek Entertainment, Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 7,267,307

International: $ 1,226,583